[FoRK] The Golden Compass: AWEsome!

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Aaron Burt wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:02:34AM -0700, Lion Kimbro wrote:
>>   This, I guess, is how atheists kill Free Inquiry;
>>
>>   They try to get anybody who goes against
>>   their agenda, committed to the loony bin.
>
> Persecution complex much?
>
> Which reminds me, anyone else think the Christian Extremists learned
> their "we must subjugate the State and destroy the unbelievers because
> we're just defending ourselves" stance from the Muslim Extremists?
>
> Or is it just part of the pathology?

Doubtful, but open for historical study.

This illustrates an interesting problem in the typical way that  
history is taught, at least in the US.  Often history focuses on a  
particular culture, or set of related events --- eg. "Early History  
of the Roman Catholic Church" etc.  In doing so there's often a  
failure to place the events studied in their broader contemporary  
context...

That's one reason I really love timelines --- they provide at-a- 
glance historical context.

I think it would be interesting to set up a kind of open, Wikipedia- 
like collaborative effort to place any and all historical events on a  
unified, searchable, filterable, linkable, annotation-friendly  
timeline.  Anyone aware of such a thing?

jb